Voice of the people (letter).

Costly Government

December 23, 1998|By I.M. Murphy.

DES PLAINES — The two families earning $31,000 and $26,500 per year would not be scraping by if the cost of government at all levels did not consume 46 percent of their income. The single mother says that $8,500 more a year would make life comfortable. If government were reduced to its proper size, that's about how much more money she'd have.